Comments on: Case Study: Google disabling external urls in Blogger.com comments

By: Pesar

Pesar — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:46:05 +0000

Really clever, but dont be shy.

By: alirezam

alirezam — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:18:43 +0000

yeah, Letâ€™s voice our opinion.

By: ziews

ziews — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:43:03 +0000

wow great post excellent

By: Seo Trend

Seo Trend — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:46:01 +0000

The literal meaning: DNS points to Google, but the URL is in use (another blog has been published to that URL). The most common meaning.

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By: Howard

Howard — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:46:18 +0000

We are asked from time to time to promote companies leaving meaningful comments that promote dialogue. We leave urls when it is appropriate. It is a valid way to explore the blogsphere.

http://prmeasure.blogware.com

By: LGR

LGR — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:31:08 +0000

More and more Google is becoming the new Microsoft. The company that everyone hates but uses anyways. All I can do is recommend to people to not use Blogger as a blogging platform any longer.

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:01:21 +0000

My thoughts are pretty much identical to yours Bes. I agree that Blogger is NOT a free service. People who choose to use it put their sites at risk because they have no control over what happens. They can’t even put in their own robots.txt – Blogger changed it a while back to point to their feed as the sitemap!

There’s a lot of blogs I love who are on blogger, but many of them are already talking about moving. I hope so, because the sooner I can never go back to a Blogger site the happier I will be.

Cheers,
Snoskred

By: Increase PR

Increase PR — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:30:46 +0000

That’s really a pitty!
Blogger is wrong in suppressing the url :’(

Let’s voice our opinion loudly on their official blog:

http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html

let’s tell them that their new feature just sucks!

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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:34:30 +0000

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By: bakkouz

bakkouz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:43:29 +0000

Very true, I also have written about this on my blog a while back, though not as detailed and comprehensive as you

And i agree totally, I really don’t know whats the deal with Google, For a company that claims to have “do no evil” as a motto, they sure look like they’re doing the contrary.

Having the persons URL connected to his comment is vital for the blog owner, not only to identify the identity of the person who left the comment, but also to be able to check out his own website, this is especially true for non-regular readers, when someone leaves a comment on my blog i tend to click on his name and check out his website, come to think of it even for my regular readers, i tend to check out their blogs through the comments they leave on my blog more than my own Blogroll or the Aggregators i follow.

I am not sure what Google’s plans are, but the recent moves by them: ie: the recent adsense changes regarding the clickable area, the PR stunt, and now this! seems they are taking a rather aggressive anti-community approach.

As for OpenID, meh, I have one, but I have honestly never used it, never needed to. and i seriously doubt that Google would be successful in promoting the use of it through such tactics.

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:20:26 +0000

An excellent comprehensive post. One thing that annoyed me was that the change to the comment form was not announced and blogspot users had to find out from other sources. Some were puzzled as to why their comments had tailed off. I made my move away from blogspot a few weeks ago for so many reasons – I reckon this will be the final straw for many and they will do the same.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:12:15 +0000

Meh. I find commenting on Blogger blogs to be a chore anyway, with the goofy popup window. I generally don’t bother.

Anyway, WordPress makes it real easy to import a Blogger blog, and commenting on WordPress blogs is painless, so maybe Google’s loss will be WordPress’s gain?

By: Simonne

Simonne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:12:35 +0000

I’ve noticed this a couple of days ago, when I wanted to leave a comment on a blogger blog. I thought it may be a bug or something. By not being able to link your name to your URL, how will the blog owner know who was that Simonne who commented there? I suppose there are thousands of Simonnes out there, and this makes it impossible for me to properly identify myself. And not only for me, but for most of the people who interact via blog comments.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:13:59 +0000

Comments are the lifeblood of blogs. Without them, the blog is a voice crying in the wilderness.

For this reason, commenting on a blog should be made as simple as possible. I find captchas irritating but recognise the need for them. But to deny me the right to comment on a blog as my own identity is a blatant misuse of power. I have an OpenID, which I use for other purposes. I do not wish to use it as a blogger.

Now I am forced down one of four routes.
a) I open a new ID. That’s out. Why should I?
b) Leave a comment using my name as identity [but as you say, how many 'Grandads' are there around?]
c) Leave my comment and add a link to my site within the comment, which is tedious.
d) Sigh deeply, and go elsewhere without leaving a comment.

I fear a lot of people are going to use the last option.

P.S. I only found this site yesterday. It has gone straight onto my reader. Nice one

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By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:27:18 +0000

Bes,

This is a great in-depth analysis of the Blogger controversy. Regarding OpenID, one of the reasons I haven’t signed up for it is because many bloggers don’t have it enabled. It could end up being one of those fads that dies down and yet another entry in my password database.

And if a girl is “open source”, I don’t know about that… Could you imagine looking at the changelog and open bug tickets?